#Tolerance Quotes

“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”

“A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.”

“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love”

“One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.”

“Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.”

“Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.”

“Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.”

“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.”

“So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.”

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.”

“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”

“Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative ChroniclesIf there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.”

“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”

“Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

“Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it”

“It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”

“Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.”

“We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.”

“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.”

“I don't think it should be a big deal who you love.”

“When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”

“Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.”

“If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.”

“We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.”

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”

“The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.”

“We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

“Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.”

“Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.”

“Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.”

“Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.”

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

“Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.”

“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

“I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.”

“I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.”

“Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”

“The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.”

“The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.”

“We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.”

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”